daviddumenil

In the case of the BMW i3, European legislation was introduced that made manufacturers accountable for the recyclability of their cars.

Something the article completely sidesteps when talking about metals versus composites :-)

Cost versus steel may well have been a factor as well.

Portugal's +1500 makes most sense in the context of Brazil's -2500.

I'd love to know if that's a longer term trend for Brazil or if their wealthy are spooked by something.

The GDA process for for the Chinese-developed reactor planned for the UK [1] took four and a half years [2]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradwell_B_nuclear_power_stati...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hualong_One

Related: Have an Enemy

https://basecamp.com/gettingreal/02.5-have-an-enemy

> It seems that FIFA isn't exactly free of corruption

John Oliver has made a great summary of FIFA's darker side: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlJEt2KU33I

This is a misleading title.

The UK government gave access to US companies. There's currently no suggestion that the data moved to the US.

More details here: https://euobserver.com/justice/145530

After privatisation people flocked back to UK rail. Volumes that had been largely static for more than fifty years have doubled since privatisation.

A Virgin Pendolino is a far more pleasant experience than the old British Rail equivalent.

I agree on the fare rises but rail remains subsidised while road and air travel are taxed.

RF tracking was even more sophisticated in WWII.

The Gestapo developed a man-portable set worn under a trenchcoat:

https://www.cryptomuseum.com/df/gurtelpeiler/index.htm

A better phrase might be 'multinational partnership'.

Big accountancy and legal firms have good historical reasons for those corporate structures.

Could this approach be applied to a metric monitoring framework to give earlier/more accurate notifications if when a threshold would be crossed?

Typically these are triggered when e.g. 90% of a threshold has been crossed.

I think it was more a case that Google had a large existing investment in CPU-based compute.

A lot of Dean's initial work was getting models effectively training on that kind of hardware using distributed SGD.

Can someone shed some light on why Apple would release this with only Apple Music as a music source?

A gentle contradiction in the article: "a full-scale break-up would cripple the platforms’ economies of scale"

but later:

"Trustbusters should scrutinise mergers to gauge whether a deal is likely to neutralise a potential long-term threat"

There also seems to be plenty of middle ground there. Like forcing a sell-off of Waze and Instagram without breaking up the whole parent company.